Oneness & Otherness Condominium / Shiran Ishay

Oneness & Otherness Condominium / Shiran Ishay

Textual content description offered by the architects. The design of this venture facilities round three key architectural parts: vertical furnishings partitions, a horizontal and steady concrete flooring, and shifting partitions. Collectively, these parts type a single, steady dynamic house that may be divided into three separate areas primarily based on private or useful wants; creating a private house that’s carved out of the frequent house. 

The vertical furnishings partitions are the primary keepers of the home capabilities on this home, changing the acquainted plaster partitions and doorways. The seven-meter-long major furnishings wall creates intimate or frequent conditions, serving a number of capabilities comparable to eating, working, speaking, enjoying, cooking, and extra. It options 4 tables and eight chairs that may be folded out for social occasions or folded away to create a unified house for the household. A hid mild grey heavy curtain throughout the furnishings wall can be utilized to separate the frequent house. When visitors come over, the curtain could be opened and hidden contained in the furnishings wall, establishing a big eating or residing house. For a extra intimate environment, the curtain could be taken out to create a smaller house for particular person actions like an workplace or yoga observe.

One other furnishings wall separates the sleeping space from the dressing and loo areas. It has two facades serving two completely different wants: a floor-to-ceiling sliding door that opens to a closet and a gap to the sleeping space. The opposite facet has a door resulting in the dressing space, drawers, and a dresser.

The five-meter wood partitions are one other key design ingredient that permits versatile use of the house when opened, closed, or half-opened. When having visitors over the partitions could be closed, separating the sleeping and dressing space from the frequent house; marking a territory unreached from one facet, whereas the opposite facet is a personal space with a closed transition from the toilet and dressing space via the furnishings wall into the sleeping house. When the partitions are open, they permit mild and air to stream in from the west, making a unified house for the household to spend time and create reminiscences collectively.

Whereas this modern architectural design exists on the within, the skin of the house tells a distinct story. It’s situated in a three-story residential constructing from the Nineteen Thirties within the German Colony of Jerusalem. The second and third flooring had been added within the Nineteen Sixties, following the construction of the unique constructing from the Nineteen Thirties. The renovation of this house in 2022 is, in a method, one other layer of the geology of the constructing.

In an age when residing conditions have gotten denser, the query of smallness usually arises, primarily as a storage answer. Nevertheless, I consider the query of dimension is not only about operate and storage however reasonably a query concerning the reconstruction of relationships, households, people, and society. It requires a distinct sample of residing, involving habits in the direction of sensitivity and tolerance. With this in thoughts, this venture is named Oneness & Otherness.